2. Libya was bad news, and Syria is worse.

The destruction of Libya was obscene, even before the extra judicial execution of Gaddafi, but no one has bothered to come up with a rationale for taking out Assad. Obama said he hated dumb wars, and I give him and his advisors the benefit of the doubt in misjudging the benefit of these MENA interventions, but they are humanitarian disasters and I believe we are being played by the UK and its allies. Very dumb indeed.